This app will help you stay mindful and relaxed [Deals]

Aura is an app that uses reminders and mindfulness exercises to help keep your stress levels down. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals

Keeping up with all the feeds and threads and reminders and messages and so on that our phones throw at us gets stressful. Technology might be winding us all up, but it can also help us relax.

Aura Premium is an iOS app to help relieve stress. They do it with short reminders and exercises delivered via machine learning algorithms. So it adapts to the pace you’re able to pause at, with 3- or 7- or 10-minute meditation sessions. Gentle reminders to take a moment and breathe sure are a much more pleasant reason to get notifications. That might explain why it’s got 4.9 out of 5 stars out of 2,900 reviews on the App Store.